Emergency Rule Ordered in Cairo Amid Tense Friday
Cairo declares a state of emergency with police and mounted patrols in the capital. Al Azhar Square hosts large Friday prayers under tight precautions amid anti Jewish demonstrations and censorship rumors. In Tel Aviv Ben Gurion rejects UN mediation favoring direct talks, while Bernadotte drafts demilitarization discussions with Arab leaders.
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al Azhar Mosque
al Azhar
Palestine
Tel Aviv
Negev
United Nations
Jerusalem
Beirut
Lebanon
Government Bans Malay Red Party
Singapore reports the Malayan Communist Party and allied groups banned by British-Malaya Singapore governance. The decree declares illegal the Communist Party and four associated bodies for aiding a violent revolt. Reinforcements from Hong Kong arrive. RAF rockets target insurgent positions in Malaya.
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Communist Party
Federation of Malaya
Singe Rt. Rence
Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army of Comrades
New Democratic Youth League
Ikatan Pembela Tanah Ayer Malaya
Malayan Federation
Hong Kong
Royal Inniskilling Fusilifiers
Singapore
Royal Air Force
Malaya
Power Pool Saves Money in Northwest Energy Network
Seattle report says the northwest power pool saved utilities about 100 million dollars and may expand to include California. E N Peterson of Portland noted BC Electric Co. is tied to a grid spanning Washington Oregon Idaho Utah and Montana and that California expansion is under study.
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Northwest Power Pool
California
E. N. Peterson
Portland
Ore
American Society of Civil Engineers
Peterson
British Columbia Electric Co
Canada
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Utah
Montana
R. Wayne Lincoln
Army Engineers
Consul Schweitzer Transferred to Bogota Assignment
Ralph A. Schweitzer of South Pasadena California has been moved from Pernamco Brazil to vice consul in Bogota Colombia the State Department announces.
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Washington
Ralph A. Schweitzer
Meridan Ave
South Pasadena
Calif
Pernamco
Brazil
Bogota
Colombia
State Department
Ex Red Tells Professors Attended Communist School
George Hewitt testified before a state legislative committee that two University of Washington professors Ralph Gundlach and Melvin Rader attended a secret 1938 39 school for Communist intellectuals near Kingston New York He said the school directed by Mindel and Siskind aimed to indoctrinate educators with Marxism Leninism and political economy and taught that state meant overthrow of the American government.
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Geatile
University of Washington
U. S
George Hewitt
Communist Party
Kingston
N. Y
Hewitt
Ralph H. Gundlach
Melvin Rader
Philosophy
Gundlach
Rader
New York City
Pop) Mindel
George Siskind
Mindel
National Committee
The
British Film Bank To Aid Moviemakers In Postwar Britain
London July 23 The government to create a film bank with five million pounds to support British movie production. Board of Trade President Harold Wilson said the facility will run five years and lend on reasonable commercial terms to ease postwar transition for the industry.
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London
Board of Trade
Harold Wilson
Wilson
House of Commons
Paraplegics Held for Shooting Vet in Memphis
Two semiparalyzed Texas veterans Wallace Rice and Don Duckworth were held on five thousand dollar bonds each on federal charges of intent to murder in the shooting of paraplegic Richard Hicks of Canalou Missouri. Rice allegedly shot Hicks after a wheelchair confrontation at Kennedy Veterans Hospital. Duckworth defended his role saying he only unjammed the pistol out of fear.
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Memphis
Tenn
Texas
Wallace Rice
Amarillo
Don Duckworth
Gainesville
U. S
Leslie Nicholson
Clyde Beck
Kennedy Veterans’ Hospital
Rice
Richard Hicks
Canalou
Duckworth
Hicks
Mexico to Use Devalued Peso
Mexican officials announce the peso will float with banks trading around six per dollar. The currency is no longer guaranteed at 4.85 to the dollar and a banking holiday followed the government’s decision. Treasury Secretary Ramon Beteta cited a $6 million flight of dollars threatening Bank of Mexico reserves and the need to abandon the peso peg.
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Mexico City
Bank of Mexico
Treasury
Ramon Beteta
Mexico
Marie Appears Assured of French Premiership
Paris July 23 Andre Marie a 51 year old lawyer who survived a Nazi concentration camp appeared assured today of becoming France next premier He telephoned President Auriol to accept nomination to form a new government and will seek National Assembly approval tomorrow afternoon Marie a radical Socialist conservative faces likely opposition from the Communist party and possibly De Gaulle followers Marie negotiates with party leaders and may form a cabinet by Sunday night.
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Paris
Andre Marie
France
Marie
Vincent Auriol
National Assembly
Robert Schuman
Popular Republican Movement
Maine
Popular Republicans
Charles de Gaulle
Californians Affected Too: Licenses Suspended for Sampling
Sacramento reports State Equalization Board chair William Bonelli suspended for 15 days the wholesale licenses of two Southern California distributors for giving away samples to promote sales without recording them. He cited external pressure from 48 states and foreign countries and warned manufacturers California will not drink all the surplus.
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Sacramento
California
Jap Cargoes Must Undergo Checks
Tokyo July 23 Allied headquarters announced that all future commercial cargo entering or leaving Japan must clear customs set up by the U S Eighth Army. The order covers equipment and supplies imported by licensed commercial enterprises and aims to control goods flow without imposing taxes or restoring former Japanese customs restrictions.
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Tokyo
Japan
U. S. Eighth Army
Allied Headquarters
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